Over a few days this summer, I went around the Baltimore harbor. I went to as many places I could excluding the Inner Harbor just because the Inner Habor is obviously the most photographed area of the city. There is a lot of areas along the harbor that can't be accessed because of all the industry, but I saw some pretty cool places that not too many people see. This is a more unusual harbor tour in that sense. Starts off in some more familiar territory and goes further. Here's what I got! Enjoy
1. That's the Pier homes in the foreground, the new Morgan Stanley in the middle, and Mr. Boh in the distance
2. Pier Homes
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4. Across the street from the Ritz Carlton on Key highway
5. Haborview Condos
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8. Little havana restaurant and Museum of Industry
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11. Harbor East in the background and a dump in the foreground
12. Riverside
13. Pier Homes and Federal Hill
14. Douglass-Myers Maritime Park and Museum
15. Locust Point
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19. Fells Point
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22. Crescent at Fells Point by Windsor
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24. Canton
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28. Silo Point in Locust point
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35. Korean Verteran Memorial in Canton
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37. Harbor Point. This is a very contentious issue right now and development of the site has been in the works for a long, long time. Controversy at the moment stems from the use of tax breaks and subsidies given due to its proximity to Public Housing (Perkins Homes). This is the current
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38. Elevated Highway along the Middle Branch of the harbor in the Westport neighborhood. The Westport Development is also a large scale development which is stalled
39. Marina Club at the Middle Branch Park in Cherry Hill
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41. Westport and west Baltimore
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44. The Hanover Street Bridge, offically known as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge. The Gwynns falls trail goes under it and people have used this access to spray paint it. Really pretty bridge from 1916
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46. Middle Branch Park
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49. Hanover St. Bridge again
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51. Gwynns Falls Trail in front of Harbor Hospital in Cherry Hill
52. The rarely seen main branch of the Potapsco River seen from Cherry Hill Park with the route 2 bridge to the left
53. A New park. Not sure what its name is, perhaps an extention of the Gwynns Falls trail
54. Curtis Bay is the water in the middle with Hawkins point in the distance. That elevation is not natural. Highly industrialized area. Hawkins Point was the site of a Superfund completed last year
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56. Key Bridge from Hawkins Point with Dundalk on the Other side, taken from Fort Armistead State Park
57. Fort Caroll is an artificial Island in the Potapsco river, technically in Baltimore County, completed in 1850. Interestingly Robert E. Lee designed this hexagonal structure as part of the permanent system/third system, which means the Fort Mchenry wasn't Baltimore's only defense. Used in the Civil War and the Spanish-American war. It was officially abandoned in 1921 and continues to be abandoned.
58. Brandon Shores Generating Station in Anne Arundel County
59. What looks like a grain elevator in Hawkins Point on Thoms Cove
60. Hawkins Point
61. Canton Industrial Area
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63. 895 goes over this now vacant firehouse. Wish I knew more about this one
64. Fells Point with Johns Hopkins seen from Hull Street Park
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66. Seen from Fort Mchenry
67. Heavily industrialized southern Baltimore city waterfront with the power station in the background in Anne Arundel
68. Canton and Johns Hopkins from Fort Mchenry, which is where the next few photos are form
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86. Happy fourth from Baltimore!